This Book Group is Queer: February 2024Like this list

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• Boys Come First

  Foley, Aaron,

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  Three Black, gay, Millennial men search for love and professional success in Detroit while navigating real friendships, Grindr hookups and family drama.

• Can't Resist Her

  Alexander, Kianna,

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  Two very determined women—in love, at odds, and risking a lot on a second chance.

• The City We Became

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  Takes readers into the dark underbelly of New York City where a roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars.

• The Confessions of Frannie Langton

  a Novel

  Collins, Sara,

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  A servant and former slave enduring a sensational trial for her employers' murders reflects on her Jamaican childhood and her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist whose questionable ethics set the stage for a forbidden affair.

• The Death of Vivek Oji

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  In the wake of a southeastern Nigerian mother's discovery of her son's body on her doorstep, a family struggles to understand the enigmatic nature of a youth shaped by disorienting blackouts, diverse friendships and a cousin's worldly influence.

• Family Meal

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  With his signature generosity and eye for food, sex, love, and the moments that must us the most human, Bryan Washington returns with a brilliant new novel.

• Felix Ever After

  Callender, Kacen,

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  Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.

• Filthy Animals

  Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.),

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  The author of the Booker Prize finalist Real Life presents a group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence.

• Friday I'm in Love

  Garrett, Camryn,

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  After not being able to have a sweet sixteen party, Mahalia decides to throw a coming out party to celebrate love and herself.

• Giovanni's Room

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,

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  The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers. When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair.

• Greenland

  a Novel

  Santos Donaldson, David,

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  In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Here Comes the Sun

  a Novel

  Dennis-Benn, Nicole,

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  Working as a prostitute near the pristine beaches and turquoise seas of Jamaica to pay for a younger sister's education, Margot hopes that a new hotel that is reshaping her home will grant her financial independence and allow her to pursue a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

  Hibbert, Talia,

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  To win the grand prize at the end of their survival course, ex-best friends Claire and Bradley trudge through mud, dirt and their messy past to find the adventure bringing them closer together, sparking a whole new kind of relationship.

• Homebodies

  a Novel

  Denton-Hurst, Tembe,

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  Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry.

• Honey Girl

  Rogers, Morgan (Morgan A.),

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  With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little & Lion

  Colbert, Brandy,

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  Returning home to Los Angeles from her New England boarding school, Suzette considers staying home for good so that she can be near her friends, her crush, and her recently diagnosed bipolar brother, a situation that is complicated by her growing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Government Means to Kill Me

  Newson, Rasheed,

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  A fierce queer coming-of-age story follows the personal and political awakening of a young gay black man in 1980s New York City.

• Pomegranate

  Lee, Helen Elaine,

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  The acclaimed author of The Serpent's Gift returns with a novel that follows a queer black woman who works to stay clean, pull her life together, and heal after being released from prison.

• The Prophets

  a Novel

  Jones, Robert, Jr., 1971-

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  Two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation find refuge in each other while transforming a quiet shed into a haven for their fellow slaves, before an enslaved preacher declares their bond sinful.

• Rainbow Milk

  a Novel

  Mendez, Paul, 1982-

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  Seeking a fresh start in London after escaping a repressive religious community, Jesse finds himself at a lost for a new center of gravity and turns to sex work, music and art to create his own notions of love, masculinity and spirituality.